Not from trendy dangers like global warming,though images of glaciers the size of Rhode Islandbreaking from the continent and melting mid ocean are chilling.

No, it’s just the nature of things.

There’s so much to see and talk about,lust for exploration might bethe ultimate end of the world.

Maybe that deviant penguinwas just curious to explore and see what it could see.(Source: Adapted from Peter Keough’s review of Werner Herzog’s film Encounters at the End of the World from The Portland Phoenix, July 25, 2008.The words in italics are my own.)